Khashkhash ibn Saeed ibn Aswad (, ; born in Pechina, Andalusia) was an Andalusian navigator.
According to Abbasid historian Abu al-Hasan Ali al-Mas'udi (871-957), Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad sailed over the Atlantic Ocean and discovered a previously unknown land (, ). In his book The Meadows of Gold, al-Mas'udi writes that Khashkhash Ibn Saeed Ibn Aswad, from Delba (Palos de la Frontera) sailed into the Atlantic Ocean in 889 and returned with a shipload of valuable treasures.Tabish Khair (2006). Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing, p. 12. Signal Books. Ali al-Masudi (940). Muruj Adh-Dhahab (The Book of Golden Meadows), Vol. 1, p. 268.
Ali al-Masudi, in his historical account The Meadows of Gold (947 CE), wrote:
The same passage, in Aloys Sprenger's 1841 English translation, is interpreted by some authors to imply that Ali al-Masudi regarded the story of Khoshkhash to be a fanciful tale:
See also Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact
References
Bibliography Abul Hasan Ali Al-Masu'di (Masoudi) (ca. 895?-957 CE), The Book of Golden Meadows, c. 940 CE